Climate Common Sense is not a sceptical site but a non-believer's site .Global warming and cooling are natural phenomena and carbon dioxide is a lovely gas vital to plant growth. Global Warming has stopped and Climate Change ( I call it Weather) is the new manufactured bogeyman. This website will present a realist view on the Climate Change debate.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

The Honey Trap

The poison pill of the Carbon tax is being disguised by a raft of goodies by the Gillard government which are being leaked in advance of the detailed announcement tomorrow. Upfront money for pensioners and a billion dollars for the rural sector for "carbon sequestration" and developing "skills" for climate change whatever that means. The tax will pass as the independent princesses have done their pirouettes in front of the media scorning their conservative electorates who will wreak their vengeance at the next election.

MORE than 1.85 million pensioner households will receive a $210 a year upfront windfall in carbon tax compensation as Julia Gillard moves to demolish Tony Abbott's cost of living assault on Sunday's climate package.

And the government will attempt a dramatic transformation of the rural sector using $1 billion of carbon price revenue over four years for soil carbon sequestration and developing skills to combat climate change, after lobbying from rural independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott.

The rural package will allow emitters to buy carbon offsets directly from farmers and landholders under the government's Carbon Farming Initiative, a policy aimed at boosting the productivity of agricultural soil and creating locally tailored climate change mitigation plans.

The sugar coating is designed to hide the fact that as well as redistributing income the tax will be a huge nett earner for the Government and that money has to come from somewhere. A glib statement that only the 500 biggest polluters will pay does not change the fact that these 500 companies will recover the money by stripping jobs or raising prices - either way the public pays a heavy price. A by-election is urgently needed!

Co2 vs Global Temperature (from C3)

About Me

Retired Professional Electronics Engineer with specialist experience in design of power systems control ,revenue metering and electronics manufacturing. Throughout career held positions of university lecturer,professional design engineer,CEO and nurseryman.I am a keen bridge player and have special interests in the climate change fiasco, and the green energy disaster in progress.